"Looms can range from very small hand-held frames, to large free-standing hand looms, to huge automatic mechanical devices. "
Most of the examples given in the article refer to the last catregory, "huge automatic mechanical devices". What about floor looms, table looms, inkle looms, backstrap looms, things used by handweavers? I've never seen a vertical loom—are they really more common than the horizontal variety?
I appreciate the haute lisse pictures as I have never actually seen one, but probably one is enough. I'll probably replace one of them with a photo of my table loom once I get it photographed.
Other goals: The parts of a loom, how it works, what is is supposed to do (i.e. basically the whole point is to somehow get your warp under tension).
[[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 01:05, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Agreed that the current article is poor in form. I would greatly appreciate, if you can rewrite, add relevant pictures etc. -- Sundar 03:42, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)
- I gave it a start. (Obviously an incomplete one, but a start.) I'm not sure how to organize, really. I have a friend who has a frame loom—I'll see if I can get her to take a picture. [[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 20:02, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks Sarah and others. Now the article is in a far better shape. I've a few pictures of Jacquard looms and power looms in India. I've uploaded one of them and used it at Ettayapuram#Weaving. I'll try to upload more after some pruning. -- Sundar 06:15, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)
- I gave it a start. (Obviously an incomplete one, but a start.) I'm not sure how to organize, really. I have a friend who has a frame loom—I'll see if I can get her to take a picture. [[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 20:02, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I've repositioned the images. They look OK on the resolution that I'm running at, but may look worse on a smaller monitor. Does anyone have a problem?
I've also put power loom before Jacquard loom, to put them in chronological order. There's also an article on dobby looms on Wikipedia, but I didn't know where to fit that in. Can anyone suggest a placing?
- Jacquard and Dobby and Cam are all different types of patterning systems, mostly for industrial looms and have different design capabilities. The actual loom attached to the patterning system could be the same in each instance. I suggest you set up a patterning systems heading. The fourth patterning type is manual, and this is the type used in most looms that aren't in factories: floor looms, tapestry looms, table looms, etc.Pschemp 22:24, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Terminology Section
There may also be a need for a separate section on terminology: Loom#Warp-weighted has some of the terms, but others are scattered. [[User:Noisy|Noisy | Talk]] 10:31, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- The terminology section is duplicating descriptions that sit pretty well where they are already. I'm tempted to move it to a separate article for reference from the weaving section. It could also be used for spinning terminology as well. Some of the terms that I've found in my research aren't clear yet, such as sleying and sett, so if anyone can expand ... [[User:Noisy|Noisy | Talk]] 00:51, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Sleying is the process of threading the warp yarn through the reed (you can just barely see the little spaces it has to go through here—it's the front part there that it goes through when you are sleying). Usually one speaks of "sleying the reed". You set (verb) the warp at X ends per inch and then you can say that its sett (noun) is X ends per inch. These are both terms that relate more to the process of warping the loom than to the structure of the loom itself. Do we want to get into that here?
- We can take this in one of two ways. As it stands, it seems reasonable to discuss the parts of a loom in the article on looms (which is not too close to being "too long" at the moment). However, I can see the value in a weaving terminology article. [[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 00:59, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Weaving needs attention
There's been a couple of edits to Weaving by Special:Contributions/User:194.222.59.249. The edits seem to be made in good faith but appear somewhat unencyclopedic, needing a major rewrite. Can some one watching this page look into that. -- Sundar 10:13, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)
weaving
i thought that you could just weave, when using a loom, with your hands. Threading the yarn/fabric with your hands...do you have to use a shuttle????--139.168.95.178 01:00, 10 October 2006 (UTC)